Chapter 480: Brother Habing's Mouth Cannon
As a mechanical race, the Reapers do not believe in coincidences or accidents, and after carefully analyzing all the known information and successes and failures, they have come to the conclusion that Shen Chao's threat to their return to the galaxy to harvest all the organic intelligent races is not much lower than Sister Xue, and may be even higher!
"You, and you, you weak human beings are fighting against your own unchangeable fate, but no matter how much you try, your resistance is futile and meaningless. There is no point in opposing our will, for you who are small cannot comprehend our greatness. At that time, we will return, at that time, we will harvest the essence of your race, and eventually, you will become our ......" After grabbing their attention, Brother Habing said a long and philosophical remark, and then it voluntarily cut off the communication, and its hologram disappeared.
To be honest, from the perspective of background gamers, this passage of Brother Ha Bing is not too difficult to understand, and the gist is nothing more than that: don't resist, we Reapers, we are very dicks, although you seem to be hindering some of my actions now, but we will eventually climb back, and when the time comes, we will use you as materials to make corpse puppets or new Reaper ships......
Shen Chao would still be worried about this kind of empty threat in the past, but after determining that he had a way to resist education, he didn't take it seriously, and no matter how high the verbal threat was, it could not replace the role of force.
The fact that Habingo, as the leader of the Reaper, was able to take the time to speak to them in such vague words was a sign that the Reaperswere worried about the speed of the galaxy's preparations. Although they had harvested countless organic intelligent civilizations in hundreds of reincarnations before, this was the first time they could only be trapped outside the galaxy and could only watch their prey grow stronger day by day.
After ending their conversation with Habingo, they spent the whole day cleaning up every corner of the entire Collector Base, finding and destroying all the remaining enemies. Subsequently, Shen Chao enlarged the previously erected space-time gate with a stable dìng. Bring in the engineering mechs in the rear.
The scale of the Collector's base is quite large, although it is still not comparable to a super space station like the Arcturus Space Station, but the internal space here has reached the scale of a large city like the Imperial Capital and the Demon Capital. The interior space can easily accommodate millions of people. There are also 3 large docks, which are a good place to stay.
Soon after the engineering mechs were brought in, work began on renovating the station in order to adapt it to the needs of the expedition team. In the meantime, they also received an update from the Shadow Brokers' agents at Omega.
Originally. The Reaper, which had been fighting the Budapest before, had passed through the repeater, but it had waited for the Budapest for hours before jumping to an unknown location, and no one was sure where the Reaper had gone.
Thankfully, Shen Chao didn't have the brains to let the Budapest chase after him, otherwise the Budapest would have turned into a puddle of scattered scrap metal, but that's all the good news.
There are quite a few things to worry about, such as how the Reaper battleship came to be, and where it is going now. What are you going to do? These are all important questions that will affect their subsequent plans, but fortunately, after unlocking the control platform, they quickly found out some of the answers to these questions through the stored information.
It turned out that after the Collector's last battleship was captured a few months ago, the Reapers, who gave up their own minion race, used the bodies of a large number of Collectors in the base as raw materials, and combined with various other tools and materials, quickly built the Reaper ships they saw before.
The Collector is a Prosthetic who has been transformed by the Reaper. Although his appearance has changed greatly, in order to make better use of his minions. The Reaper did not fully educate all the Collectors in the Collector base. The corpses they had seen in the central control room were those who had committed suicide after realizing that their masters had abandoned them. The few remaining collectors were in the interior of the escaped Reaper ship from earlier.
In addition to this information, they also found some deleted video footage of the construction of the Reaper battleship, and other manufacturing materials had been completely deleted before they arrived, but they still gave them a lot of reference information.
After sending the data back to the rear, the results of the analysis of the rear science team were quickly available. It turned out that the Reaper battleship they had seen before was not a finished product, and it didn't seem to have a control agency!
This was speculative, as based on the combined research of the Citadel races and their own preliminary dissection of the reaper's remains, they knew that each reaper would have a sizable amount of organic parts within it.
Although the keel of the Reaper battleship. Both the shell and the main weapon are synthetics, but there are many parts of the body that are made up of organisms, including their most important control mechanism, the brain, which must also be composed of organic parts and inorganic parts, making up for each other's shortcomings.
And in this base, there are only other parts of the video of the reaper before it was built, and the most important part of the control is only filled with a set of remote control equipment. In other words, although the Reaper battleship they saw before was comparable in appearance and combat power to the real Reaper of the same level, it was essentially a remote-controlled puppet. Guess further, the one who remotely controlled the Reaper battleship and fought with the Budapest before was probably Brother Habing!
"It seems that our opponent has a new response plan......" Shen Chao said after playing with the information, he had guessed what the Reaper's new response plan would look like, but it would not have much impact on them at the moment.
"This place has been settled, we should immediately go after and kill that Reaper battleship......" Sister Xue said, she also roughly straightened out the Reaper's thinking after reading the information, I have to say that the Reaper's plan is very exquisite.
Although the current galaxy is actively preparing for war, but the pressure of preparing for war has made countless people complain, most people want to get rid of this heavy pressure of preparing for war, if the Reaper can use that remote-controlled battleship to confuse everyone, the problem will be big, so Sister Xue wants to preemptively kill that battleship.
"I agree with you, but we have no idea where the Reaper ship is, how long it will be hidden, and what targets it will eventually pick to attack. The best course of action at the moment is to wait! Although Shen Chao agreed with Sister Xue's judgment, he did not agree to pursue it now.
As the strongest warship in the expedition, the Budapest was almost killed by the opponent in the previous battle, so it can be seen that it is very unwise to pursue the escaped Reaper warship now, and the chance of being killed is not small.
"When, until those Citadel Council idiots fall for it again?" "After so many events, Sister Xue no longer has the slightest confidence in the IQ of those guys in the Divine Citadel Council.
"Have you forgotten the last stop of our trip?" , the Reaper will not gain any advantage for this little time. Now, our main task is to settle this base, this will be the place where countless people will lead to hope in the future......" Shen Chao finally persuaded Sister Xue, and after that, they were busy here for half a month.
Shen Chao mobilized two more cruisers from the rear to defend this new base, and then took a lot of effort to clean up the wreckage of large ships near the exit of the Mass Effect repeater.
Shen Chao's wish was to set up the Collector Base he had just occupied as a new base of operations to be used as cover for the Bunker Project. The Omega 4 repeater is still a natural barrier to stop anyone with too much curiosity from coming over and causing trouble.
While they were making these preparations, the previously escaped Reaper was repairing its damage in a remote galaxy, and since it had only one previously damaged forelimb, it had "grown" a new replacement limb after a few days of recovery.
Although the whole repair process is very complicated, simply like those creatures that can regenerate severed limbs, reapers, as long as they are not completely destroyed or their intelligence cores are paralyzed, can rely on nutrients from the outside world to repair their limbs.
It's just that organisms need carbohydrates, caps, and iron to repair their severed limbs...... and so on, and then arrange these substances molecule by molecule, allowing them to slowly form their new limbs.
The Reaper, on the other hand, repairs his body is simpler, it only needs to find something that is roughly the same shape and volume as its severed limb (such as a small cargo ship) and attach it, and then slowly remove the unsuitable parts, leaving the useful parts to continue to plasticize.
At this time, the Reaper battleship was controlling a large number of small machines in its body under the remote control of Brother Ha Bing, and the mechanical part of the broken limb was repaired. The organic part of the severed limb had already been scraped together by killing a sand devil before.
The Sand Devil is a giant creature native to the home planet of the Krogan people, named the Sand Devil because of its common presence in the desert. This creature is very large and usually lurks underground, but when it encounters a large creature passing by, it will burrow its head out of the ground to attack its prey.
A typical adult sand devil can grow to a length of more than 100 meters, and its size is terrifying. Because of their strong survivability and adaptability, and being a must-have for the Krogan rite of passage, they were brought to various parts of the galaxy by the Krogan during the expansion of the Krogan hundreds of years ago.
With the carcass of the Sand Devil as the basis for the organic parts, and the wreckage of the cargo ship as the shell of the inorganic parts, the Reapers soon restored the severed limbs to their original form. Although it will take some time to restore the original performance, the main functions have been restored. (To be continued......)